In Los Angeles, the street lights shone pale in the fog. Shuqing now lives in a basement in Chinatown, the windows are close to the sidewalk, and only half of the light is exposed.
From time to time outside the window, drunk people pass by with loud speakers on skateboards.
Shu Qing's original relatives in the United States are old overseas Chinese who went to the United States very early. He has four children under his knees, but lives a frugal life. If you want to take a bath, you have to go two hours in advance to let the water drip into the tub little by little.
I feel really sorry for troublesome relatives again and again. Shu Qing took the initiative to move out and went out to find a house to live in.
In the basement of China Town, a bed and a table form a temporary foothold. It costs $180 a month, which is still the price of sharing with others.
? When he first arrived in the United States, Shu Qing only had more than 60 US dollars borrowed from relatives and friends in China. This amount of money is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for local prices.
In fact, the ph.d degree courses are very tight, and the daily studies and papers are already overwhelming. The full scholarship that was promised at the beginning turned into a half scholarship after one semester because of the resignation of the supervisor.
? As a last resort, Shu Qing had to use all his spare time to go back and forth between two Chinese restaurants to wash dishes in order to maintain his daily expenses.
He often packs rotten bananas at the fruit shop, when the price is the cheapest. The shopkeeper occasionally joked with him, asking if there was a monkey in the house.
After hearing this, Shu Qing felt helpless, but still smiled politely with the shop owner. Life is hard, and the taste of it can only be swallowed by oneself.
When he managed to graduate and got a degree certificate, he couldn't find a satisfactory job for a long time. Seeing that the student visa is about to expire, how to renew it has become the same problem.
After graduation, there are also many Chinese students who are unable to find a suitable job and whose visa expires. Being forced to do nothing, staying by marrying (marrying) a local Chinese has become a tacit way for everyone.
Just at this time, Shuqing received an urgent telegram from China. My father said in a telegram that his mother had cancer, and domestic doctors could not treat her, so he asked Shuqing to think of a way.
Think of a way What else can I think of at this time? On the one hand, the visa expired and the job was not available. On the other side is a seriously ill mother who urgently needs good medical resources for treatment.
The snow began to melt, and the glass windows in the basement were splashed with mud. Shu Qingqiang opened his bloodshot eyes and sat there for a whole day without eating or drinking.
He remembered that when he was parting, his mother held his hand tightly, "You must live up to it."
Now thinking of his mother's exhortation, he felt particularly heartbroken.
Like a soulless person, Shu Qing walked to the bathroom in a daze. He filled the washbasin with cold water and submerged his head in it.
For a moment, there seemed to be no sound around, and everything seemed to have returned to calm.
"Boom boom boom"
A knock on the door awakened Shuqing, he raised his head abruptly, and looked at himself in the mirror, how did he become such a distressed look?
The door opened, but the person standing at the door was someone that Shu Qing could never have imagined.
"Hi, Shu Qing, I found you!" Liang Xiaoya threw herself into Shu Qing's arms excitedly, crying with joy.
Shu Qing froze in place, unable to move for a while.
"Shortly after you left the country, I immigrated to the United States with my parents, and we lived in New York. I have been asking for information about you these years, and finally found your relatives in Los Angeles, and that's why" Liang Xiaoya said Then, his eyes were red again. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com